The fifth edition of the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE will take place this autumn, between 9 and 15 October, and will have an exceptional and perhaps unique format: we will invite the audience to the boulevards of the Rawa River in Katowice for one day, and for the next five consecutive days the audience will be able to participate over the Internet. Furthermore, additional recruitment of exhibitors for the fifth edition of the ŚFN KATOWICE has just been launched.
Although the organisers would prefer to invite you all to our Festival’s home, meaning to the International Congress Centre, due to constantly changing circumstances regarding the pandemic, it has been decided that this time the festival will be organised under a different format.
ŚFN KATOWICE will begin with an opening gala on Saturday, 9 October, and for the purposes of the festival activities on Sunday, 10 October, space will be arranged, stretching from the Katowice market square through ulica Teatralna (Teatralna Street) and the Rawa River area in the vicinity of our university to ulica Jerzego Dudy-Gracza (Jerzego Dudy-Gracza Street). This is where the main stage, several smaller stages, fields of knowledge, and special zones will be located, i.e. everything that the festival audience grew accustomed to visiting the International Congress Centre in the past years.
From 11 to 15 October (that is from Monday to Friday) the festival will be held online. Each day will be devoted to a different field of knowledge (natural sciences, technology, humanities and social sciences, exact sciences, and medicine and health). In addition, every day the programme will include issues related to the field of arts, as well as subjects of interest for teachers and students, and for adults.
Organising the 5th ŚFN by the Rawa River is a great opportunity to change the image of this particular area and, in the long run, to make it an important element of the urban space of Katowice. In addition, the festival held in this location will be the first step towards creating a Science Zone in our city, which would naturally merge with the Culture Zone.
You can submit activities for the ŚFN programme using a special registration form available at: rejestracja-sfn.us.edu.pl. We encourage you to submit proposals for lectures, workshops, exhibition booths, exhibitions, and other forms of science communication, which could enrich the Festival’s fields of knowledge (natural sciences, technology, humanities and social sciences, exact sciences, and medicine and health) or special zones. We are particularly looking forward to various artistic events (e.g. concerts) and activities that can extend the programme of the City Zone, Water Zone, and Remote Living Zone.
The current ŚFN format is a great challenge, but the organisers will do their best to ensure that in these exceptional circumstances the content is presented in an interesting and attractive way in terms of substance and visual aspects and that the festival audience can enjoy a version of the event that is as varied and rich as possible. They will also make sure to help all exhibitors in implementing the proposed activities in the best possible way, whether in real or virtual space.
We encourage all interested persons to take part in the additional recruitment and thus to participate in creating an exceptional nationwide science communication event, i.e. the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE.
Activities can be submitted until 30 June 2021.
